Spacecraft, NASA backs rainbow-coloured solar sail project, New Scientist, 4 June 2022,p 16

In US, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have devised a solar sail that can control the direction of the protons bouncing off it by means of an electric charge, thus avoiding the need to rotate the whole sail.

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Journal title: New Scientist

Keywords: 4 Propulsion - 4.5 Solar propulsion

Subjects: Spacecraft